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(ModelJ C. PHILLIPS.

SELF ACTING CLIP FOR FURNITURE FEET. No. 271,263. Patented Jan.30,1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELWOOD O. PHILLIPS, OF'iRIOHMOND, INDIANA, AS'SIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH MAROHANT, OF SAME PLACE.

SELF-ACTING CLIP FOR FURNITURE-FEET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,263, dated January 30, 1883.

Application filed September 28, 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELWooD O. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States,residin g at Richniond,in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Self-Acting Olips for Furniture-Feet, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce a device which by its own action has a rigid hold upon the leg of a school-desk or other article of furniture at or near the point of contact with the floor, and which in itself may be fastened to the'floor, thus securing a rigid contact of the foot of theleg with the floor.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section through a clip embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represeats a plan viewof the same.

111 the drawings, A represents the base, and B B B are lobes or curved projections of the base, provided with holes 0 c c for screws.

D D are sides of the frame,projecting upward from the plane of the base, the inner surfaces of which are perpendicular.

E is the upper bar of the frame, attached to and at right angles with the sidesD D, thefront of which forms an edge and is provided with a spur or lug, e. F, which forms the lower bar of the frame, is the upper surface of the base. The inside surface of the bar F forms a plain bearing for the face of the leg, which is held in contact with it by the pressure on the opposite side of the leg by the pressure of the bar E and its lug e. the operation of the bar E and spur 6, combined with the bar F, being to hold the end of the leg rigid and immovable, and when the base A is secured to the floor by screws or bolts a permanent, cheap, and effective connection is produced between the floor and the legs of a desk or other article.

The size of the opening in the frame can be made to conform to the size of the legs used, and viceversa.

The clip may be made of any suitable material.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new,- and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The rectilinear frame composed of the sides D D, top bar, E, provided with lug e, and the bottom F, attached to the base-plate A, having openings B B .13, all substantially as set forth.

ELWOOD O. PHILLIPS. Witnesses:

JOHN S. DEAL, W. I. DENNIS. 

